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...proficient,” he said. Criticized by committee members in the past for a “test-oriented” and “autocratic” approach to school policy, Fowler-Finn—who had his superintendent contract renewed by a close committee vote in January??suggested a provision to encourage creativity in school curricula. “Our school system must take advantage of the creativity of teachers and principals,” he said. “There are going to be $5,000 grants available.” But committee member...
...January??s end, with the official inauguration still a week away, the pursuit of textbook price reform was already well underway—and under fire. A group of UC representatives, dispatched to the Harvard Coop to collect ISBN information for the database of a UC-endorsed, student-run book-savings Web site, were forced to leave by store employees...
...with Australia—they’re all about frustration with a dead-end life. McCormick apparently couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of Mercer’s lines “Been alone since you were 21 / You haven’t laughed since January?? with a shot of keyboardist Marty Crandall in a pine tree costume diving into a moving van filled with stolen balloons. The band takes their contraband to an idyllic field where they release the orange balloons that match their jumpsuits—shallowly symbolic, but forgivable. The imprisoned balloons...
...garnering seven Oscar nominations, music impresario Quincy D. Jones was given a different kind of honor by the School of Public Health this week. Jones, who has also had a long career in humanitarian work, was selected as “Mentor of the Year” for January??s sixth annual National Mentoring Month campaign. “I am humbled and honored to have this title bestowed upon me,” Jones told The Crimson in an e-mail through his publicist, Arnold Robinson. “Throughout my life I have had the good...
...economy and state collapsed,” she said. “Our objective is to make government work again.” It’s an ambitious objective in Liberia, whose capital, Monrovia, went without electricity for 15 years before Sirleaf came to power this past January??and restored power this past July. “We are at a critical junction as a nation,” Sirleaf said. Liberia was a relatively peaceful country from its founding by former African-American slaves in 1847 until a 1980 military coup overthew then-president William Tolbert...